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“I’ll be there,” Ginger said. “Of course I’ll be there.”
“Thank you,” Nate said. “Is Connor with Nick in the stables?”
“He’s with Nick, but they’re out in the fields,” Ginger said. “I can call him.”
“No, it’s okay,” Nate said. “I’ll tell him when I see him this afternoon.” Connor always came to help with the riding lessons in the afternoon, and he and Nate spent the afternoons and evenings together, sometimes working and sometimes just going back at the Annex.
“We should go celebrate tonight,” Ginger said.
“Sweetheart, I can’t eat more Chinese food.” He made sure his voice carried a tease, but he was being dead serious.
Ginger pealed out a string of laughter that made Nate’s heart happy, and then she asked, “What about a nice, juicy steak?”
“Oh, now you’re talking my language.”
“Pick me up at six?”
“Absolutely,” he said. “I can ask Nick to babysit Connor so we can go alone.” Nate had plenty of opportunities to see Ginger alone, and he exploited them as much as possible. The woman had lips he sure did like to kiss, and she didn’t seem to mind when he took her hand and hurried her around to the back of the barn so he could do so.
“This is about the two of you,” Ginger said. “He should come.”
“Good point.”
“All right,” she said. “See you tonight.”
“Love you,” he said.
“Love you too, my hopeful cowboy.”
Nate ended the call and tipped his head back to look up into the sky. “Thank you,” he murmured, not sure if he was talking to God or to his brother. His hope grew and grew, and he hoped he could be the kind of father Connor deserved. He hoped he could be a good husband for Ginger. He hoped he would always be full of hope and dreams, and that he could work hard enough to make them come true.
“First, the adoption,” he said. “Then my release. Then—get a ring on Ginger’s finger.”
